Background
The taura syndrome is commonly called as red tail disease and is a serious infectious prawn disease, and the acute stage is characterized by red and soft shell of prawn body and the transitional stage is characterized by irregular blackening of cutin epithelium. The disease was classified as two types of animal epidemic diseases in 2008 "the public Bureau of agriculture of the people's republic of China". OIE classifies it as a disease that must be declared. The pathogenic pathogen is Taura Syndrome Virus (TSV), belongs to single-stranded RNA virus, is temporarily classified in picornaviridae, can proliferate in cytoplasm, mainly infects 14-40-day-old young shrimps, and is susceptible to partial young shrimps or adult shrimps. The mortality rate of the infected prawns with the viruses reaches 60 to 95 percent, and the infected prawns with the White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) and the Infectious Hypodermal and Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus (IHHNV) are called as three diseases affecting the world prawn culture by FAO. TSV primarily infects Penaeus vannamei (Penaeus vannamei), penaeus monodon (Penaeus monodon), penaeus vannamei (Penaeus aztecus), penaeus vannamei (Litopenaeus Stylirostris), of which Penaeus vannamei is the most sensitive because the virus rapidly proliferates and is released outside in the host. In recent years, since the penaeus vannamei boone is successfully introduced in China, the yield of the penaeus vannamei boone accounts for more than 50% of the total yield of the penaeus vannamei boone in China, and if the penaeus vannamei boone is epidemic and spread in China, the penaeus vannamei boone will cause heavy attack to the penaeus vannamei boone breeding industry in China. TSV has been reported to occur in coastal seawater prawn culture dense areas in Guangdong, guangxi, hainan, fujian and other provinces in China. Because no effective method for treating TSV exists at present, the epidemic and spread of pathogens can be avoided only by instant detection and comprehensive prevention and control.
At present, various methods are used for TSV detection at home and abroad, such as histological section pathological observation, common PCR, qRT-PCR, LAMP, liquid chip technology and the like, but the methods are complex to operate, long in time consumption, expensive in detection instrument, difficult to apply in a farm and not suitable for on-site rapid screening. Therefore, a rapid and simple detection method needs to be developed, which has important significance for prevention and control of TSV. The method for ERA constant-temperature fluorescence detection of TSV is established, is rapid, convenient, accurate and reliable, and can meet the field detection requirements of farms.
Enzymatic recombinant isothermal Amplification (ERA) is a constant temperature Amplification technique, in which 3 proteins (DNA Recombinase, single-strand binding protein, and DNA polymerase with a strand displacement function) are added to a reaction system containing a template, and specific primers and probes are added, so that nucleic acid Amplification can be completed within a certain time at constant temperature. Compared with other constant temperature amplification technologies, ERA can perform amplification reaction at 25-45 ℃, does not need thermal denaturation, has low requirements on hardware equipment, has higher nucleic acid amplification speed, can obtain a target amplification product within 20min, can quickly give a report in field detection, and greatly shortens the detection time.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides a constant-temperature fluorescence detection method for the taura syndrome virus of prawns and a combination of a primer and a probe, which aims to solve the problems in the prior art and can obviously shorten the detection time of TSV of prawns; meanwhile, the method is simple to operate, high in sensitivity and strong in specificity, meets the requirement of rapid detection, and provides an effective means for monitoring TSV in prawn culture.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
one of the purposes of the invention is to provide a special primer and probe combination for constant-temperature fluorescence detection of prawns taura syndrome virus ERA, which comprises the following components: the nucleotide sequence of the prawns taura syndrome virus forward primer is shown as SEQ ID No. 1-2, the nucleotide sequence of the specific fluorescent probe is shown as SEQ ID No.3, wherein 33-bit base T of the probe marks a fluorescent group (6 FAM-dT), 34-bit base G of the probe is replaced by a tetrahydrofuran linker (THF), 35-bit base T marks a fluorescence quenching group (BHQ 1-dT), and the 3' end of the probe marks a modifying group (C3-SPACER) for inhibiting extension or amplification of polymerase. The introduction of a probe with a fluorescent label in an ERA system and the matching of a corresponding amplification primer can effectively improve the specificity of ERA detection.
On the other hand, the invention further provides a rapid detection method of the taura syndrome virus of the prawns based on the ERA technology, which comprises the following steps:
1) Extracting RNA of a sample to be detected, and carrying out reverse transcription to obtain cDNA;
2) Using the cDNA as a template, adopting the primer and the probe to carry out ERA amplification, and detecting the change of a fluorescent signal in an amplification system;
3) And (6) judging the result.
Preferably, the sample is selected from prawn branchia tissue, hemolymph or prawn hepatopancreas tissue in case of adult prawn, and sub-shell tissue in case of young prawn.
Preferably, the temperature for ERA amplification is 36-42 ℃.
Preferably, the temperature of ERA amplification is 42 deg.C, the reaction time is 20min, and the total number of cycles is 40.
Preferably, the concentration of the primer in the ERA reaction system is 500nM and the concentration of the probe is 120nM.
Preferably, the result of step 3) is judged as:
analyzing the sample to be detected according to the final fluorescence amplification curve, wherein the fluorescence curve is S-shaped, the CT value is less than or equal to 35, and the result is judged to be the positive result of the taura syndrome virus; and when the curve of the sample to be detected is not S-shaped or the CT value is more than 35, judging the curve as a negative result of the taura syndrome virus.
Compared with the prior art, the beneficial results of the invention are as follows:
the operation is simple. The detection method provided by the invention can get rid of dependence on large-scale instruments and professional detection laboratories, does not need professional operators, can be used for field detection, and has practical use requirements.
High efficiency and high speed. The whole process of the detection method can be completed within half an hour, and the detection efficiency of the taura syndrome virus of the prawns is improved.
High specificity and sensitivity. The detection method related by the invention is the genome DNA of common pathogen of prawnThe method comprises the steps of selecting a Taura Syndrome Virus (TSV), a liver Enterocytozoon (EHP), an acute hepatopancreaticosis necrosis disease (AHPND) pathogenic bacterium, an infectious epidermic and hematopoietic necrosis disease virus (IHHNV), a White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) and a healthy prawn sample, and not generating nonspecific amplification; the detection sensitivity was 10 1 copies/μL。
The cost is low. The equipment used by the invention has simple structure and low detection cost, is suitable for the customers of aquatic products sensitive to the cost and is suitable for popularization and use.
Detailed Description
For a better understanding of the technical content of the present invention, the present invention will be further described with reference to the following embodiments and accompanying drawings.
Materials, reagents and the like used in the following examples are commercially available unless otherwise specified.
In the quantitative experiments in the following examples, three replicates were set up and the results averaged.
The ERA fluorescent nucleic acid amplification kit of the following examples is a product of Suzhou Xianda Gene technology, inc., product number KS103.
Example 1: primer Probe design
The invention takes the capsid protein 2 gene of the taura syndrome virus of prawns as a target detection gene (the accession number in a Genebank database is AY 826052), and designs a group of primers and probes, and the sequences of the primers and the probes are shown in a table 1. The primers and probes were synthesized by Biotechnology (Shanghai) Inc.
TABLE 1 primer and Probe sequences
Example 2: ERA amplification condition temperature optimization
To determine the optimal temperature of the primer probe combination in example 1 for the ERA amplification reaction, a reaction assay was performed using the ERA fluorescent nucleic acid amplification kit, as follows.
The operation steps are as follows: the reaction system is 50. Mu.L, which contains 2.1. Mu.L (10. Mu.M) of each of the forward and reverse primers, 0.6. Mu.L (10. Mu.M) of the probe, 20. Mu.L of the lytic reagent, 2. Mu.L of the positive standard, and 48. Mu.L of sterile water. After mixing, transferring 48 μ L of the premix to each tube of lyophilized powder, shaking for mixing and centrifuging for a short time to dissolve the lyophilized powder sufficiently. For each sample, 2 μ L of activator was added to the reaction tube cap, the activator was added to the premix by brief centrifugation, vortexed briefly and again centrifuged rapidly. The reaction tube is rapidly placed into a real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR instrument, amplification is carried out under the conditions of 30 ℃, 33 ℃, 36 ℃, 39 ℃, 42 ℃ and 45 ℃, and the fluorescence value of the FAM channel is collected once every 30 seconds.
The positive standard substance involved in the system is recombinant plasmid containing TSV detection target gene, the plasmid is subjected to gradient dilution by 10 times, and the concentration is selected to be 10 5 copies/. Mu.L was used as template for the reaction.
The temperature optimization results are shown in fig. 1. And determining the optimal temperature in the amplification reaction according to the comparison of the Ct value and the fluorescence intensity. The result shows that the ERA reaction system can perform better amplification at 36-42 ℃, and the recommended temperature is 42 ℃.
Example 3: optimization of primer probe concentration in ERA reaction system
To determine the optimal concentration of primer probes in the ERA amplification reaction, we tested different primer concentrations (1.5. Mu.L, 2.0. Mu.L, 2.5. Mu.L, 3.0. Mu.L) and probe concentrations (0.6. Mu.L, 0.8. Mu.L, 1.0. Mu.L) and the procedure was as in example 2, the reaction was performed at 42 ℃.
The results of the primer probe concentration optimization are shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, respectively. The result shows that the optimal concentration of the primer in the ERA reaction system is 500nM, and the optimal concentration of the probe is 120nM.
Example 4: ERA detection sensitivity test
To determine the sensitivity of the amplification reaction of the prawns taura syndrome virus ERA, a positive standard is used as a template and the positive standard is diluted by 10 times in a gradient way (1 multiplied by 10) 5 ~1×10 0 copies/. Mu.L) were run at these 6 concentration gradients.
The results of the detection are shown in FIG. 4. The results show that: the sensitivity of the method for detecting the taura syndrome virus ERA of the prawn is 10 1 copies/μL。
Example 5: ERA detection specificity assay
In order to determine the specificity of the amplification reaction of the prawns taura syndrome virus ERA, the DNA of Taura Syndrome Virus (TSV), prawn Enterocytozoon (EHP), white Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV), infectious Hypodermal and Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus (IHHNV), acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND) pathogenic bacteria and healthy prawns are respectively used for detection.
The results of the detection are shown in FIG. 5. The results show that: the method for detecting the taura syndrome virus ERA only normally amplifies TSV genes, and does not amplify EHP, WSSV, IHHNV, AHPND, healthy prawn samples and negative control (sterile water). The results show that the designed primer and the probe do not have cross reaction with other pathogens, false negative does not occur, and the specificity is strong.
Example 6: ERA constant temperature fluorescence detection method for taura syndrome virus
1) Extracting RNA of the prawn to be detected, and carrying out reverse transcription to obtain cDNA;
1.1 sample selection: taking prawn branchia tissue, hemolymph or prawn hepatopancreatic tissue if adult prawn, and taking crustal tissue if prawn.
1.2 sample cDNA acquisition: the nucleic acid is obtained by adopting a nucleic acid rapid extraction kit and a traditional method.
2) The cDNA is taken as a template, the primer pair and the fluorescent probe in the embodiment 1 are adopted for ERA amplification, and a fluorescent detection device is used for detecting the change of a fluorescent signal in an amplification system;
2.1 premix for each sample was prepared as follows:
TABLE 2 reaction System
ERA reaction system components
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Sample addition/μ L per tube
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Dissolving agent |
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20
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Forward primer (10. Mu.M)
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2.5
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Reverse primer (10. Mu.M)
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2.5
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Probe (10 μ M)
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0.6
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Template DNA
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2
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Sterile water
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20.4
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Volume of
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48 |
The premix was shaken well and centrifuged briefly.
2.2 for each sample, 48 μ L of premix was transferred to each vial of lyophilized powder. Mix well with shaking and centrifuge briefly.
2.3 for each sample, 2. Mu.L of activator was added to the reaction tube cap, the tube cap was carefully closed, and the activator was added to the premix by brief centrifugation. Mixing by brief shaking and fast centrifuging again
2.4 the reaction tube is placed into a fluorescence detection device and reacts for 20min at 42 ℃, and the fluorescence value of the FAM channel is collected every 30 seconds. ( The detection device comprises: any fluorescent detector that can excite and detect the selected fluorophore and stabilize the temperature at 36-42 deg.C is suitable, such as GS8 fluorescent isothermal amplification instrument, ABI 7500, lightCycler480, CFX 96 fluorescent quantitative PCR instrument, etc. )
2.5 after the reaction is complete, the data is saved and the sample tube is discarded.
3) And (6) judging the result. And qualitatively detecting the taura syndrome virus in the prawns according to the comparative Ct value and the fluorescence intensity.
Analyzing the sample to be detected according to the final fluorescence amplification curve, wherein the fluorescence curve is S-shaped, the CT value is less than or equal to 35, and the result is judged as a positive result of the taura syndrome virus; and when the curve of the sample to be detected is not S-shaped or the CT value is more than 35, judging the curve as a negative result of the taura syndrome virus.
The invention selects the taura syndrome virus capsid protein 2 gene as a target gene for detection, designs a special primer and a probe for ERA detection aiming at the target gene sequence, and establishes an ERA detection method of the taura syndrome virus. Experiments prove that: the method for detecting the ERA of the taura syndrome virus can finish detection within 30min at 36-42 ℃, the optimal temperature is 42 ℃, and the sensitivity is 10 1 The copies/mu L is equivalent to the detection level of one PCR (polymerase chain reaction) and qPCR (quantitative polymerase chain reaction) recommended by OIE, has no nonspecific amplification with EHP, WSSV, IHHNV, AHPND, healthy prawn samples and negative control (sterile water), is quick, convenient, accurate and reliable, and can meet the field detection requirement of a farm.
The above description is only exemplary of the present invention and should not be taken as limiting the invention, as any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.